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CEC project

JSC is partner in a joint research project funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and the Siemens AG. The aim of the project is to develop new combustion technologies for climate-friendly power generation. The focus is on modern gas turbine technology, which plays an important role in the present transformation of the energy system into a sustainable system based on renewable energy sources. The validation of the gas turbine combustion technologies will be carried out in a new test centre known as the "Clean Energy Center" (CEC).

The CST team will provide an implementation of the open source CFD toolbox OpenFOAM for the Blue Gene/Q architecture in cooperation with the Simlab FSE. The task will be to reduce performance and scaling bottelnecks in OpenFOAM to enable large simulations on JUQUEEN, in particular to model a complete annular combustion chamber of a gas turbine.

Earthquake Safety Analysis of the Second Bosphorus Bridge

The behaviour of real-life structures in disastrous situations is of great interest. One important question in this regard is the earthquake safety of buildings, infrastructures etc. The calculation of the behaviour of a huge infrastructure like the Second Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul during an earthquake is a challenging task, because such a simulation by means of large scale FEM calculations requires

a high resolution FEM model of the structure

knowledge of typical earthquake loads

access to supercomputer ressources

In cooperation with the Bogazici University, Istanbul, and the FH Aachen the Second Bosphorus Bridge will be investigated and its earthquake safety will be numerically evaluated.